111 Day Scene
Characters: Wu Tianliang, Wu Lili, Li Xiaodao
Time: Near noon
Setting: A secluded place along the forest road
△ Li Xiaodao’s vehicle is driving along the forest road. Lili pounds on Li Xiaodao. Enraged, Xiaodao stops the vehicle in a secluded place and uses a rope to tie Lili’s hands behind her back.
Lili: (extremely furious, cursing loudly) “You insane coward…”
Xiaodao: (backhanding Lili across the face) “Shut up. Your old man isn’t any better.”
△ Blood trickles from the corner of Lili’s mouth, yet she continues cursing Li Xiaodao nonstop. Xiaodao simply takes out adhesive tape and tries to seal Lili’s mouth. Lili keeps resisting, and Li Xiaodao forcefully grabs and straightens her face.
Xiaodao: “Heh heh, I like women like you the most. Spicy enough, fierce enough, and really hot too.”
Xiaodao: (laughing wildly) “Hahahaha, that conscienceless councilman boss would never know that before he gives me the money, his daughter has already been…”
Xiaodao: (pulling apart the shoulder strap of Lili’s wedding dress, laughing wildly) “I’ve tasted everything, except I’ve never tasted the delicate skin and tender flesh of a ‘young lady.’ Hahaha.”
△ Just as Li Xiaodao is about to pull down the zipper of Lili’s wedding dress, a shadowy figure crawls out from the rear trunk, pointing a handgun at the back of Li Xiaodao’s head. “Bang, bang,” two shots are fired in succession. Li Xiaodao collapses face-down onto Lili and dies instantly. Blood gushes continuously, splattering across Lili’s white bridal gown and her fair face. Terrified out of her wits, Lili hurriedly pushes Li Xiaodao off her. Tianliang opens the car door and drags Li Xiaodao’s corpse into the trunk compartment.
Lili: (face deathly pale) “Dad, it’s you.”
△ Lili bursts into loud sobbing.
Tianliang: “Lili, Dad will take you back. Dad is sorry to you. Dad will take you back.”
△ Father and daughter embrace each other and weep.
112 Dusk Scene
Characters: Wu Tianliang, Wang Meixiu, Wu Lili, Gao Yingxiong, Gao Minghui
Time: Dusk
Setting: Gao Yingxiong’s house
△ Wu Tianliang drives the SUV to the entrance of Gao Yingxiong’s house.
△ Gao Minghui hears the sound of a car stopping outside the door and walks out.
Minghui: “In-law, Yingxiong, come out quickly, Lili is back.”
Meixiu: (crying tears of joy) “She’s back, Lili is back, my daughter.”
△ Yingxiong supports Meixiu as they quickly walk to the doorway. Everyone is shocked to see Wu Tianliang driving Lili back. Yingxiong immediately steps forward, carries Lili out of the vehicle, walks into the living room, places her on the sofa, and wipes the blood from the corner of her mouth.
Yingxiong: (with a heartbroken expression) “You were frightened, Lili. I’m sorry. I failed to protect you properly.”
Meixiu: “As long as she came back safely, that’s enough. Safe return is enough.”
Yingxiong: (standing up) “Damn it, that brat Li Xiaodao actually dared to hit my wife. I’m going to settle the score with him.”
△ Yingxiong gets up and is about to rush out the door, but Tianliang stops him.
Tianliang: “No need. Li Xiaodao is already dead. His corpse is in the trunk compartment of the vehicle.”
Meixiu: (cursing) “That damned thing.”
Minghui: “You did it? In-law.”
Tianliang: “Mm. In-law, I should atone for my actions. I was wrong. I nearly ruined my daughter.”
△ Wu Tianliang lowers his head guiltily.
Lili: (sobbing softly) “Dad, don’t be like this. It’s all over now.”
Tianliang: “Yingxiong, Dad wants to ask you two favors, alright?”
Yingxiong: “As long as it’s something I can do, I will definitely do it for Dad.”
Tianliang: (wiping away tears) “Today’s wedding was ruined halfway through by Li Xiaodao because of me. I hope you can hold the wedding again. Secondly, help me ask the police station whether, if I surrender myself, I can come out to attend your wedding when you two get married. Dad’s only wish is to see my precious daughter happily complete her wedding.”
Yingxiong: “Alright, Dad. I’ll go discuss it with Tianxiang.”
Meixiu: “Old partner, are you really going to surrender yourself?”
Tianliang: (holding Meixiu’s hand) “Meixiu, just stay here with Lili and wait for me to come back.”
Meixiu: “Mm, I will.”
Minghui: “In-law, rest well for one night first. Tomorrow Yingxiong and I will accompany you to surrender yourself.”
Yingxiong: “Dad, how should Li Xiaodao be handled?”
Minghui: “Notify the funeral home first and have the body removed overnight.”
Yingxiong: “Alright.”
113 Dawn Scene
Characters: Gao Huijun, Zhou Tianyou, Zhao Jia’en, Pu Tianxiang, Gao Yingxiong, Wu Lili
Time: Early morning (dawn)
Setting: Zhushan Sunrise Viewing Platform on Alishan
△ Huijun clings delicately to Tianyou’s arm.
Huijun: “Tianyou, my father highly approves of your performance.”
Tianyou: (kissing Huijun’s forehead) “Baby, I made you worry and be frightened.”
Huijun: (sweetly, teasingly) “Baby? Why are you still so glib-tongued?”
△ Tianyou suddenly kisses Huijun on the lips.
Tianyou: “Am I? Baby, am I glib-tongued? My tongue is still sweet, you know!”
Huijun: (blushing) “Tianyou, let me ask you…”
Tianyou: “Alright, after you finish asking, we’ll kiss again.”
Huijun: “You’re so annoying, be serious. Your younger brother and the others are all here.”
Tianyou: (standing at attention) “Yes, my lady.”
Huijun: “I saw my glamour photos in your computer again. What is going on? Could it be…”
Tianyou: (changing the subject) “I heard the sunrise at Alishan is really beautiful.”
Huijun: (suspicious, nervous) “Answer me. You… you didn’t use my photos for improper things again, did you?”
△ Seeing Huijun so nervous she is almost about to cry, Tianyou tightly embraces her.
Tianyou: “Silly girl, baby, actually, the first time I saw you, your beauty already moved my heart. Now you are my beloved future wife. Those photos were taken carefully by me, it’s just that back then greed and desire clouded my mind, which caused you heartbreak.”
△ Tianyou feels deeply guilty and tightly embraces Huijun.
Huijun: “Is that really true? You’re not lying to me?”
Tianyou: “How would I dare deceive my lady?”
△ Tianxiang and Jia’en stand on the viewing platform. Tianxiang sets up the camera tripod.
Tianxiang: “Jia’en, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?” (He noticed Jia’en had spoken very little along the way.)
Jia’en: “Nothing. I was just… just thinking about something Aiyu once said to me.”
Tianxiang: (comforting) “I think Aiyu’s spirit in heaven also wouldn’t want to see us living forever in the shadows of the past.”
Jia’en: (smiling) “I was thinking about how, when Aiyu was still alive, she cared about you every moment.”
Jia’en: (sighing softly) “Sigh! Thinking back to that time when I went to negotiate with her, Aiyu generously said she would fulfill our wishes. Her only hope was for me to stay by your side.”
Tianxiang: (eyes reddening with tears) “I understand Aiyu’s love for me, so I will pull myself together.”
Tianxiang: (smiling) “I also understand your devotion toward me.”
Jia’en: “My father hopes you will resign from your police job and take over his business as soon as possible.”
Tianxiang: “No rush yet, right? Your father is still very healthy.”
△ The two smile at each other.
△ Yingxiong tightly embraces the sorrowful Lili. He understands that Lili’s heart is concerned about her father, Wu Tianliang.
Yingxiong: “I’m sorry, Lili. You were frightened on the wedding day.”
Lili: (tears glistening in her eyes) “It was an accident. No one expected things to turn out like that. I don’t blame you.”
Yingxiong: (embracing Lili and wiping away her tears) “Don’t cry.”
Lili: (sobbing softly) “That day, Dad said he harmed me, but at the critical moment, Dad was also the one who saved me.”
Yingxiong: “Mm, I understand. I understand.”
△ Tianyou calls everyone together.
Tianyou: “The November Life Bean Festival is almost here, right?”
Huijun: “Eh, how do you know too?”
Tianyou: “Of course I know. Don’t forget that my father also came from the Dabang community.”
Tianxiang: “How about the three couples all completing our weddings together during the Life Bean Festival?”
Huijun: (happily shouting) “Alright, I agree.”
Yingxiong: “Big sister, you’re a girl. How can you be so shameless?”
Huijun: (blushing) “What? I just thought Tianyou wants to recognize his roots and return to our Tsou tribe, and besides, everyone is going to… going to get married.”
Tianxiang: (nodding) “That’s right. My brother and sister-in-law’s idea is very good. Jia’en, you don’t object, right?”
Jia’en: “I still need to discuss it with my parents first, but I think they will respect our mutual decision.”
Yingxiong: “Lili, what about your opinion?”
Lili: “I hope my father can come attend our wedding.”
Yingxiong: “Tianxiang said the prosecutor has basically already agreed.”
Yingxiong: “Right, Tianxiang?”
Tianxiang: “Yes. When the case was transferred to the district prosecutors office, our Chief Zhong specifically pleaded with the prosecutor.”
Tianyou: “Then let’s set our lifelong unions on the day of the Life Bean Festival.”
△ “Alright.” The three couples all express their agreement together.
114 Day Scene
Characters: Gao Yingxiong, Wu Lili, Zhou Tianyou, Gao Huijun, Pu Tianxiang, Zhao Jia’en, Pu Ziqiang, elders, etc.
Time: Day
Setting: The plaza between Chashan Village and Lijia Village
△ The three couples, dressed in traditional Tsou wedding attire, sit on the stage receiving blessings from the elders.
Lili: (asking softly) “Yingxiong, what is a Life Bean?”
Yingxiong: (in a joking tone) “It means women should be as fruitful as beans and have lots of children.”
Lili: “You’re talking nonsense. I don’t want that. I’m afraid I’ll become very fat after childbirth.”
Tianxiang: “What Yingxiong said is correct.”
Huijun: (smiling) “The Life Bean is a specialty of our Tsou tribe. It possesses tenacious vitality. Even in barren soil and harsh environments, it can still bear abundant fruit endlessly.”
Tianyou: “Therefore, when the Tsou tribe implemented population growth plans, in order to encourage the tribespeople to learn from the spirit of the Life Bean and continue reproducing no matter the environment, they specially used the Life Bean as the symbol of traditional weddings. Right, baby?”
Huijun: (surprised) “How do you know so much?”
Tianyou: “Uh, because I want to return to my ancestral roots, of course I need to study our tribe’s history more.”
Tianyou: (playfully) “Besides, I want you to give birth to a dozen little beans for me.”
Huijun: (blushing) “You… so annoying! Do you think I’m a sow…”
△ The three couples, after enduring hardships, smile sweetly.
Jia’en: (sentimentally) “Tianxiang, thinking of Aiyu, and the little bean she left behind…”
Tianxiang: (sorrowfully) “With you taking care of little bean, Aiyu’s spirit in heaven will also feel at ease.”
△ Pu Ziqiang serves as the ceremony host.
Ziqiang: “Elders, please bestow your blessings.”
△ Yingxiong, Lili, and Meixiu continuously search the crowd for Tianliang’s figure.
Lili: (stretching her neck to look around) “Yingxiong, why haven’t I seen Dad? He said he would definitely come.”
Yingxiong: (comforting her, embracing her waist) “Don’t worry yet. Dad should come…”
△ Host Pu Ziqiang announces.
Ziqiang: “Bride and groom, exchange tokens.”
△ The groom gives the Life Bean to the bride, while the bride gives the Life Bean flower to the groom, symbolizing life continuing endlessly and flourishing forever.
Ziqiang: “Drink the unity wine.”
△ Wu Tianliang feels too ashamed to face his wife Meixiu and daughter Lili, and also fears they will be looked down upon by everyone. Hiding far outside the venue, after watching his daughter Lili complete the wedding ceremony, he silently leaves the scene together with the two police officers behind him.
△ After the ceremony ends, the tribespeople sing and dance joyfully.
△ Long-distance shot. The sounds of singing and dancing gradually fade.
△ The camera zooms in. Wang Meixiu hands a suitcase to Lili and Yingxiong.
Meixiu: (sorrowful, forcing herself not to cry) “Lili, your father came, but he was too embarrassed to let you see him wearing handcuffs. He asked me to leave this sum of money to you all, to do some public welfare work in the tribe. It also counts as an apology to the Tsou people.”
Lili: (eyes reddening) “Dad—” (wanting to run out of the venue)
Yingxiong: (holding Lili back) “Since Dad specifically instructed Mom, it was also because he didn’t want you to feel sad. Ever since earlier, I already saw Dad guarding outside the venue, watching us.”
△ Lili throws herself into Yingxiong’s embrace, sobbing softly.
△ The camera zooms in on the Tsou tribal singing and dancing. The music “Gaoshan Qing” begins to play.
~~The end
P.S. Centered around the Tsou Tribe Life Bean Festival, the event openly invites local villagers wishing to marry to participate in a traditional Tsou wedding ceremony. The entire event lasts approximately 100 minutes.
Features: Mainly participated in by Alishan township residents, conducted completely according to traditional Tsou cultural rituals and ceremonies, and includes a “Little Bean Household Registration” activity.
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參考網址：http://alishan-lifefona.emmm.tw/#
